2012 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

Data Sources—Health Resources and Services Administration

National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH)

Sponsor

Description

NSCH explores the extent to which children with special health care needs have medical homes, adequate health insurance, access to needed services, and adequate care coordination. Other topics may include functional difficulties, transition services, shared decisionmaking, and satisfaction with care. Interviews were conducted with parents or guardians who know about the child's health. More than 190,000 households throughout the United States that have children are screened to identify approximately 750 children with special health care needs in each State and the District of Columbia.

Survey Sample Design

Like all modules of the State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS), NSCH uses the sample frame of the National Immunization Survey (NIS). NIS is a household telephone survey that calls more than 1 million telephone numbers each year to locate a sufficient sample of households that include children in a very narrow age range, 19-35 months. Since most households do not contain children in that age range, most households contacted are not eligible for NIS. SLAITS makes efficient and cost-effective use of this sample frame to field large-scale population-based surveys with a prescreened sample of households.

Uniform Data System (UDS)

Sponsor

Description

UDS is an integrated reporting system used by all grantees of BPHC's Community Health Centers, Migrant Health Centers, Health Care for the Homeless, and Public Housing Primary Care programs. Clinical, operational, and financial data collected are used to monitor and evaluate BPHC programs and to analyze annual trends.

Primary Survey Content

UDS tracks a variety of information, including patient demographics, services provided, staffing, clinical indicators, utilization rates, costs, and revenues. UDS data are collected from grantees and reported at the grantee, State, and national levels.